Aura's Dreamworld

One thing that struck me about the style of Aura and its "magical realism" was that the entire story seems to run largely on the same kind of style and logic experienced in dreams. As was discussed in class, when the protagonist encounters something bizarre, he often wonders briefly about it, then calmly goes back to whatever he was previously doing, which is exactly the kind of thing that I find happens a lot in dreams. The second-person narration also contributes to this effect, so that the reader is given the impression of having a strange dream about being a guy called Felipe Montero. The dream motif is also expressed more directly when Montero explicitly dreams (dreams within dreams?) about things that seem to blend into his “waking” life, suggesting that there's not much separation between his dreams and his life. I'm not sure how much of this is intentional, but the effect seems quite pronounced to me regardless.